Improvement in balance-pivot gate



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DAVID BROWN, or HA-MPDEN, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 102,365, llatell April 26,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAIIANCE-PIVOT GATE.

The Schedule referred to isnthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID BROWN, of Hampden, in the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Farm-Gates; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip-- tion of the same, reference being had to the accom post, the extremities of the prolonged parts beingthe two bars together so as to form of them jointly a longitudinal brace for the gate, in combination with a self-fastening latch of a peculiarv construction.

A is a section of a fence. Y

a, a vertical post fixed in any suitable manner at the end of the fence.

vb b, are arms projecting horizontally from the post a in the same direction, one near its bottom, and the other near its top.

c is the pivot-post ot' the gate set in the arms b.

d cl d are the three lower horizontal bars of the gate.

e e are the two upper horizontal bars supported in the end-post h, and on the journal-spimlle i., projecting upward from the top of the pivot-post, and extending to a suitable distance beyond said spindle.

lc is one of the pieces connecting the extremities of the prolonged parts of the bars e, there being similar connecting pieces on the other side of the bars, so as to form between them a space in which stones or some other heavy body maybe placed to act as a counter weight, and so as to bind the bars e together,

-in order that they may i'orm onebrace, whereby the gate is greatly strengthened. One of the lbars e may project through the post li,

so as to form a latch-pin, l@

' A recess, m, is cnt in the fixed vertical post n to receive the latch-pin. A horizontal latch-bar, 0,'is pivoted at its center to the inner sideof the post n, justabove the recess m, said latch-bar. having beveled ends r r, which-"allow the pin Zto pass under and raise them from/either side, and springs s s, which restore the latch-harto its horizontal' position as soon as the pin has entered the recess, and retain it therein. j

For additional security a pivoted detent, t, may be dropped over the pin l, so to prevent vertical displacement. Y A

What I cla-ini as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The bars e e, when so prolonged and bound together at the extremities of their extended parts-as to form a joint brace, and ail'ord an inclosed space for the reception of a counter weight, in combination with the pivotedlatch-bar o, provided with beveled heads r lr, springs s's, and detent t, in the manner and for the purpose specified.

. DAVID BROWN.

lVitnesses:

SAML. W. MATTHEWS, H. P. DOANE. 

